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Riccardio leads the pack before finishing the race in second, but he was later stripped of his first podium finish by the FIAEPA / Srdjan Suki

Kevin EasonMotor Racing Correspondent, Melbourne

Last updated at 6:41PM, March 16 2014

Maybe Sherlock is the only man for the job. The FIA launched its team of
amateur sleuths on a multimillion-dollar corporation last night and kept
Formula One fans around the world on tenterhooks for hours. Again.

For all its smug, smart, intellectual brilliance, F1 is a basket case of the
first order. To keep fans waiting to discover the result of a grand prix
they had watched almost six hours before is humiliating and, well, plain
daft.

Its defence will be that the issue around Red Bull’s fuel system was so
complex that it took that long for the process of